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Lavinia Rossetti

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Books

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

August 30, 2022September 15, 2022 Lavinia

The Catcher in the Rye is a sort of journal-entry-style novel spanning two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield, after he is expelled

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Latin & Greek Science

Latin and biology GCSE results!! 😬

August 28, 2022September 2, 2022 Lavinia

On the 25th August, it was GCSE results for every Year 11 student nationwide (although I’m actually Year 10 – being home educated, I can

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Pottery Apprenticeship

Finishing off soap-dishes and Xmas decorations ready for firing

August 24, 2022August 24, 2022 Lavinia

I spent the day volunteering with Connie again, this time finishing off the Christmas tree decorations and soap dishes I was working on last week.

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Books

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

August 23, 2022September 15, 2022 Lavinia

One minute, you have just finished another stressful day at work. You’ve got the Beatles song A Day in the Life stuck in your head. You are

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Books

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

August 20, 2022September 15, 2022 Lavinia

“How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or

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Blog

My sister got into Oxford!

August 18, 2022August 20, 2022 Lavinia

As many of you may know, today was A-Level results today. We were all up at 8am this morning watching my sister’s laptop screen intently

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Pottery Apprenticeship

Making the cutest little ceramic soap-dishes!

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 Lavinia

Yesterday, when helping out with Connie at her little pottery, she upgraded me to the slightly more challenging task of constructing little clay soap-dishes. They

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Books

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

August 13, 2022August 13, 2022 Lavinia

The Bennets are an upper class family living in rural England in the early 1800s, comprised of mother, father and daughters Jane, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary

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Pottery Apprenticeship

Giving little foxes little foxy eyes and noses!

August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 Lavinia

Today for my third time helping Connie out at the local pottery, I painted little black pupils on the eyes of the foxy Christmas decorations

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Stories

A Promising Prologue

August 8, 2022August 24, 2022 Lavinia

This is the first recently written story I’ve ever posted on my blog. I’ve always been embarrassed that my stories are tripe, but I’m confident

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Lavinia

Hi there! My name is Lavinia, I'm fifteen years old and am home educated. This is a blog of all the things I've been up to since I was five. I hope you enjoy it here! ❤

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